Assignments
Chapter one
1- Contact at least 5 people at your company or a nearby company who use information systems.
a. list the systems
b. the position titles of the users
c. business functions that the system support
2- Create an organization chart of your company or a nearby company by using Microsoft Word or a similar program, or you can draw it by hand.
Chapter two – system planning
1- Use the Internet to find an example of cooperate mission statement.
List at least three different mission statements.
2- Suppose you own a travel agency or a health food restaurant in your city.
Use your imagination to write a mission statement and at least three goals for the travel agency or restaurant.
Chapter 3 system analysis
1- Design a questionnaire to learn more about the registration process at your school or how customers place orders at a local business.
2- Draw a context diagram, a diagram 0, and lower level diagram that represent the registration system at an imaginary school.
Then describe each primitive function in your level DFDs.
3- Visit the IT department at your school, company, or at a local company and determine whether the information systems were developed in-house or purchased as software packages. If packages were acquired, determine what customizing was done, if any.
Write a brief memo describing the results of your visit.
Chapter 4 system design
1-Examine various application software packages to find examples of good and bad user interface design.
Document your research and design a new good user interfaces for bad ones.
2- Search the internet to find examples of good and bad data entry screens
Document your research and design a new good data entry screens for bad ones.
3- Draw ERD for the imaginary school that you created its DFDs before in the analysis assignment.
Chapter 5 implementation
1- Design a generic test plan that describes the testing for an imaginary system.